On 05/25/2011 11:18 AM, Sigrid Carrera wrote:
Hi Tom, all,
On Wed, 25 May 2011 15:56:47 +0100 (BST)
Tom Davies<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi :)
I think a lot of the Extension's devs haven't yet made them available for
LibreOffice. Apparently most/many/some of the OpenOffice ones work if you can
find them but if you could contact the devs of your favourite Extensions then
they would probably be quite keen to add them to LibreOffice's collection. I
have a feeling that it's usually pretty easy for the dev's of a particular
Extension to add it to LibreOffice's lists but just requires remembering (or
being nudged into remembering) to do it. I doubt that it's possible to do them
all from the LibreOffice's end otherwise it would probably have been done
"en-masse" already.
I think the reason for not having those extensions transferred "automatically"
was due to licensing reasons. I think I remember, that LibO only wants to have truly open
extensions. But I can be wrong. :)
However i think there is already at least one that deals with importing Pdfs so
a search might help. I have one called "PDF Import 1.0.4" which has a big
Oracle logo/icon rather than the sleek elegant LibreOffice or TDF style of
logos. It opens Pdfs in Draw rather than Writer& so i can't edit text with it
(afaik). I can move around blocks of text, pictures and stuff and i think i can
add blocks of text or pictures too. I have a funny feeling that i probably
didn't need the extension at all as i seem to remember PDF import being added to
the main package recently.
That's the default behaviour. PDF is a format to describe a graphical layout of
a document. And for graphics, Draw is the correct component. It is not meant to
edit a file extensively. You can add a few lines of text in a form (I did this
just last week) and it works well. If you need to change the whole text, just
ask the original creator for a editable file.
Sigrid
I have not tried any real PDF editing in the past 4 to 6 months, or so.
I know with Ubuntu, you can get free PDF editing packages. For Windows
that may be difficult, or at least the last time I looked for one.
I wish CUPS-PDF would orient their PDF output like LibreOffice does with
the Export-To-PDF does. LibrO keeps the orientation of the document,
but CUPS-PDF will make it Portrait orientation. That becomes hard to
read for landscape documentation like pamphlets and brochures. I end up
using an external PDF editor to correct that problem in non-LibreO
document like prints from Firefox that need to be saved and not waste paper.
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